'People like music that's easy to understand' says young producer, CassKidd

Published: 29 September 2014 | by Janine Dube

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Producer, Cassidy Baillie, also known CassKidd, born in South London in 1996, has already worked with an array of impressive names at his young age.

He was introduced to music production at the age of 12 and has since taken his hobby further and is studying at the prestigious BRIT School for Performing Arts.

The BRIT has an alumni that includes Amy Winehouse, Adele, Katy B, Leona Lewis, and Shingai Shoniwa, just to name a few.

Describing his music to OneVybe, CassKidd says, "Overall, I would describe it as 'Anything & Everything' because I don't have a particular taste in a specific genre of music.

"I like bits and pieces of different genres of music, such as HipHop, R&B, Trap, Ambient Post Rock etc.

"But recently, through the internet and various blogs, the term Future RnB is gradually becoming the official title to the sound, style and music I make."

CassKidd - Let You Down (Promise)CassKidd, who has so far worked with artists such as DJ Ironik, A.M
Sniper, Wiley and Joel Compass, says he never set out to make 'industry
sounding music.'

"I think for me, it was mainly the people around
me that gave me the belief to actually pursue and take music seriously
because growing up, I'd just make music in my bedroom and keep it to
myself," says CassKidd.

Fortunately, he did not keep his talent to himself and the young producer has since had a phenomenal response to his music.

"I've learned over the years that, people like music that's easy to understand, uplifting and melodic.

"It
sounds weird but it's true. And just by working that out, it's made my
ability to make music slightly easier," he tells OneVybe.

CassKidd
cites producer S-X as one of his biggest influences saying, "He
produced the classic Grime instrumental (Woo Riddim) and now produces
HipHop for all the artists in YMCMB, TI's Hustle Gang and other big US
artists.

"What inspires me is that he is young and has an iconic
production sound and that his production style is in high demand. Plus
he's born on the same day as me!"

SX - Woo Riddim (Instrumental)On the artists he has worked
with in the past, CassKidd replies, "This has always been a odd question
because in the early days of producing, I would make an instrumentals
and upload them to the internet and random artists would make songs to
my beats.

"So most times I would search 'CassKidd' on the internet and find out who's made music to my instrumentals.

Since then the producer has worked with A.M Sniper and Wiley for his first official remix, which was of the song, 'Bus Pass.'

A.M. SNiPER - Bus Pass ft. Wiley"Seeing
the process of actually producing the track, seeing it going up on
iTunes as MY remix and seeing other verified twitter faces promoting the
single at the time. It was pretty sick!" he says, rightfully excited.

"I would love to work with either Little Simz or G Frsh," he said while talking about his future plans.

"I
feel that out of all of the UK artists out there, currently these two
artists are paying attention to the new type of Alternative
HipHop/Future RnB that's slowly making it's way onto the commercial
surface."

Releasing fresh music is a fundamental part of what
CassKidd does and he aims to improve on his skill-set by learning the
piano and becoming more familiar with other music making software other
than FL Studio 10, which he uses.

He also intends to keep pushing for more official remixes and said, "I can promise, they'll always be new music from CassKidd."